· Private foundation
Robert Z Hawkins Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $683k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $588k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $200,000 |
| 43 NEVADA HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS | $136,000 |
| RENOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $102,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | $100,000 |
| SKY TAVERN JR SKI PROGRAM | $50,000 |
| NOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES | $45,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS | $40,500 |
| ARTOWN | $35,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE RENO-SPARKS | $30,000 |
| DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
| CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA | $25,000 |
| KIDS AND HORSES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $25,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $25,000 |
| NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $626k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $229k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FBFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $445k · revenue +28%
- NMNevada Museum of Art5× · 2020–2024 · $264k · revenue +111%
- CCCatholic Charities of Northern Nevada5× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- 4N41 NEVADA HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPSone grant, 2020 · $64k
- UFUNR FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2021 · $60k
- NNNORTHERN NEVADA DENTAL HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
CSNV is engaged in comprehensive community development projects that promote neighborhood revitalization and economic development, community education and civic action, housing, development; cultural awareness, equity and
Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.
As nevada's federally designated primary care association, nvpca promotes access to affordable, comprehensive & quality health care for nevada's underserved populations. we support & advocate on behalf of member community health centers,…
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
Nevada HealthRight exists to serve the forensic healthcare needs of Nevada residents and visitors by providing excellence in clinical forensic healthcare services, violence prevention, education, and research.
To promote fair government practices and for all other legal purposes
To uplift the indigenous community by building political power.
To make a difference in the lives of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community of Nevada through advocacy, education and serving the diverse community.
Build a stronger community of creative individuals and businesses. Create an attractive area for people to live visit engage and shop. Spread awareness about Rino in Denver in Colorado and nationally. Provide education about the arts…
The organization supports Nevada local CASA programs which recruit, train, retain and deploy volunteers to advocate for abused or neglected children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for All Nevada and the most unlike its peers is Consolidated Agencies of Human Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 115 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
- Who funds Nevada Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada ↗
- Who funds NOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Northern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services ↗
- Who funds CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Renown Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE 1701 GROUP FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF RENO-SPARKS ↗
- Who funds ARTOWN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEVADA LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MASON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds For Kids Foundation ↗
- Who funds EDDY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEVADA HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Sierra Kids Foundation Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The E L Cord Foundation · Dermody Properties Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · Estelle J Kelsey Foundation · The Bretzlaff Foundation Inc · Minnie B Leonette Family Foundation · Helen Close Charitable Foundation · Renown Health
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Robert Z Hawkins Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.